Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Myspace loom like thunderstorm clouds raining social acceptance. Our “friends” like our pictures on Facebook; our “friends” like what we’re doing at a specific moment of the day; our “friends” make snarky comments on statuses of events that we’ve attended. We, more often than not, become or act on what others understand […]

A free virus particle may be thought of as a packaging device for the virus’s genetic material. Every virus is a bunch of genes wrapped in a coat of proteins. In viruses, the genes are either made of DNA or RNA. The outer coat of a virus looks a little like a burr that sticks […]

Diction, or Puritan Plain Style, can be defined as a simple, yet direct style of writing characterized by the use of short, easily understood words common to colonial times. This was the preferred writing style of the Puritans in seventeenth century New England. Anne Bradstreet, however, added her own twist to the simplistic style of […]

Desire is a powerful thing. It can drive people to do things that they normally wouldn’t even think of doing. In the book The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Jay Gatsby is in love with Daisy. To who is married to someone else but used to be his lover. He goes to extreme measures […]

We have all heard about how cancer, smoking, and other illnesses kill people, but I never hear stories of how Multiple Sclerosis (MS) affects people. Sure, people may not think about it because they may not know what it is. Some may feel that it doesn’t apply to them. I would like people to think […]

Some people believe that the gunpowder plot was a hoax, and by that I mean that the government knew what Guy Fawkes and the other Catholics planned to do and decided to ignore it, Until the last minute so that they looked to be more powerful and in control. Others however say that the Catholics […]

On my first day of school I was nervous but excited at the same time because I was going into school a junior and going in getting closer and closer to being a senior. I came too school this year starting off fresh, doing all my work, going too school, not going in late, and […]

I believe that happiness comes from inside ones self that only when someone has happiness all around them, they can they be completely happy with their life. Happiness comes from within, it does not matter what you have in life it matters what you have accomplished in that life, also it matters if you have […]

During the summer, I spent most of my time doing yard work and other odd jobs to raise money to build a computer. I enjoy playing video games, and my current computer could not run most of the new games that I wanted to play. My old computer just did not hold to the test […]

I guess it is that time. Every year I dread the return of the school year because of the work load but, there are also aspects that I enjoy about returning to school. It’s one of those things you need to embrace to actually enjoy. I know one of my friends that hates going to […]

Book Review Outline Book title and author: outsiders / S.E. Hinton Title of review: greaser’s vs. socs Number of stars (1 to 5): **** Introduction The book is about a gang / group of kind of poor people called the greasers, and then there was another group/ gang that is wealthier they were called the […]

Locked In: A Learning Experience Out of every story of every first job, this may be the worst. This job is more difficult than I could have ever imagined. It has only been my first day and already I, Annie Sullivan, have had disrespect from the whole Keller family. Plus the fact that I have […]

To me, if you do it right, a single story, a single paragraph, a single sentence can change someone’s entire life. A single story can change a person’s entire outlook on life. Maybe it inspires them for an hour, or just one day, before they forget or lose its meaning, but a lot can happen […]

We live in an era of absurdity. Television and Internet is accessible from any phone or computer, plenty of video games feature sex and violence as major genres, and video is quickly replacing instant messaging. And yet, some argue that we, as a society, have gone too far. Some argue that our children are becoming […]

Diary of a young girl by Anne Frank is a diary by a young girl surviving life during the holocaust. Anne Frank is a thirteen year old girl who was born in Germany but once world war two started her family was forced to move to Holland o avoid being taken away. While in her […]

Book title and author: The Ghost at Skeleton Rock by Franklin W. Dixon Title of review: An adventure that keeps you wondering Number of stars (1 to 5):4 Introduction Frank and Joe are on another mission to find out where the diamonds of the Hugo dummy came from. Description and summary of main points Frank […]

Table of Contents Abstract………………………. .1 Extended Essay………………………2-9 Works Cited…………………………..10-11 Abstract The purpose of this research paper is to reveal how elective plastic surgery has changed men’s and women’s perceptions of beauty in the United States. My goal is to find why some people are getting plastic surgery, and how their actions are affecting future generations. […]

When teenagers think about school, the last thing they think is fun. School is always associated with homework, teachers, tests, quizzes, report cards and alarm clocks. When teenagers go to school, they have worries, such as to see their grades on their report card or if they studied enough for an important math test. Those […]

So the reason why Madame Bovary is a masterpiece throughout the years is because it is so plausible. As much as this has remained, everything else since that simpler time has evolved greatly. For example, Emma covets a velvet horse and carriage the same way a modern-day woman covets a Ferrari. The same way a […]

“And woman should stand beside man as the comrade of his soul, not the servant of his body” is one of Charlotte Perkins-Gilman’s quotes about feminism (womenshistory.about.com). Charlotte was born on July 3, 1860 in Hartford Connecticut. Throughout Charlotte’s life she has been active in social reforms and mostly feminist movements. This activism is seen […]

In “A Poison Tree,” by William Blake teaches how anger can be dispelled by goodwill or nurtured to become a deadly poison. It is appropriate that poems touching on Biblical themes should be expressed like this in which a spiritual meaning is expressed in a vivid story. The opening stanza sets up everything for the […]

In Eve’s Diary, by Mark Twain, the first woman on Earth writes a supposed diary about her life in the Garden of Eden. The story is based on the creation legend from the Bible, and almost all the events in Eve’s Diary are identical to it. Although the short story seems to be simply a […]

As the Civil War drew to a close in 1865, a string of problems started to surface, including questions such as the following: How should the Confederate states re-integrate into the Union? What rights should be granted to African Americans after emancipation? As the Confederate states were defeated in the war, the north was still […]

History, trade strategies, aid, and investment all play a role in a country’s economic development. But how does a country really develop? By examining Colombia, this book explores the issues of causes and effects of development as well as the pros and cons of various development strategies, as well as posing the question: What is […]

Do you ever think the way I do? Wondering if this is the last breathe you ever take? Do you ever wonder if your a BAD person and no one else is?Technically we all are in our own little special ways. Do you ever wonder if people judge the way you act?”Sit up or don’t […]

Lucy Pevensie is a fictional character in C. S. Lewis’s The Chronicles of Narnia series that I appreciate at my young ages. Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy, four siblings, are deported from London to the house of a professor during World War II, they have to leave their family and also their city. They find […]

America as a country has fought many wars, but had only one official war fought within itself represented by the many writers of the time.Poetry of the Civil War taught Americans about the war by telling how soldiers and others in the war felt about their experiences. Poems written in the civil war times and […]

Throughout the years, schools have been putting art programs on the backburner, but is that really a good idea? Numerous studies have shown that kids benefit from art and musical programs, especially kids from poorer families where such exposure would be unlikely in their own home life. Art education connected with better learning skills and […]

In Patrick Henry’s “Speech in the Virginia Convention”, the persuasive techniques of rhetorical questioning and repetition are shown through the thought provoking questions in his speech and the repeated ideas and phrases that get stuck in the listeners’ heads. Throughout Henry’s speech, the topic of opening the listeners’ eyes and realizing how Britain is not […]

Literary movements often take completely different opinions and ideals from previous movements, swaying drastically far from the previous movement; in this case, the swing from Romanticism to transcendentalism was a great swing, but, nonetheless, various Romantic ideals were upheld and mingled with those of the new transcendentalist philosophy. Transcendentalism is a philosophy that rejects the […]